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Book Synopsis Aspects of Hellenistic Kingship by : Per Bilde
Download or read book Aspects of Hellenistic Kingship written by Per Bilde and published by Aarhus Universitetsforlag. This book was released on 1996 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kingship was probably the most important institution in the Hellenistic world. The enormous territories conquered by Alexander the Great were not organised as democratic republics or a Greek type of "tyranny", but as monarchies inspired by the Macedonian kingdom and the Persian Empire. In fact, the idea of kingship was, so to speak, contagious in the Hellenistic era, and the proclamation of a king was the simplest way of establishing sovereignty. This monarchical legacy was eventually taken over by the Roman Empire, from where it was transferred to mediaeval Europe. This volume focuses on the symbolic aspects of the Hellenistic monarchies: what were the values and ideals of these kingdoms? Were they identical, or were there regional differences?
Book Synopsis Kings and Kingship in the Hellenistic World 350-30 BC by : John D. Grainger
Download or read book Kings and Kingship in the Hellenistic World 350-30 BC written by John D. Grainger and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between c.350 BC and 30 BC the Mediterranean world was one in which kings ruled. The exceptions were the Greek cities and Roman Italy. But for most of that period neither of these republican areas was central to events. For the crucial centuries between Alexander the Great and the Roman conquest of Macedon, the political running was made by kings, and it is their work and loves and experience which is the subject here. Rome's expansion extinguished a series of monarchies and pushed back the area which was ruled by kings for a time, but the process of building a republican empire eventually rebounded on the city, and the Romans empire came to be ruled by an emperor who was in fact a facsimile of a Hellenistic king. Rather than attempting a narrative of the various kingdoms, John Grainger takes a thematic approach, considering various aspects of Hellenistic kingship in turn. This allows him to highlight the common features as well as the differences across the various dynasties. How did one become king? How was a smooth succession secured and what happened when it was not? What were the duties of a king, and what were the rewards and distractions? These are just a few of the interesting facets examined in this original and fascinating book.
Book Synopsis Kings & Kingship in the Hellenistic World, 350–30 BC by : John D. Grainger
Download or read book Kings & Kingship in the Hellenistic World, 350–30 BC written by John D. Grainger and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2017-08-30 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The social and political aspects of ancient kingship are examined in this historical study of the Hellenistic period. For the crucial centuries between Alexander the Great and the Roman conquest of Macedon, the Mediterranean world was overwhelmingly ruled by kings. This fascinating history examines the work, experience, and preoccupations of these monarchs. Rather than presenting a chronological narrative, John Grainger takes a thematic approach, highlighting the common features as well as the differences across the various dynasties. How did one become king? How was a smooth succession secured—and what happened when it was not? What were the duties of a king, and what were the rewards and pitfalls of rule? These are just a few of the topics examined in this original and fascinating book.
Download or read book Lysimachus written by Dr Helen S Lund and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although shortlived, Lysimachus' Hellespontine empire foreshadowed those of Pergamum and Byzantium. Lund's book sets his actions significantly within the context of the volatile early Hellenistic world and views them as part of a continuum of imperial rule in Asia minor. She challenges the assumption that he was a vicious, but ultimately incompetent tyrant.
Book Synopsis The Oriental Origin of Hellenistic Kingship by : Calvin Wells McEwan
Download or read book The Oriental Origin of Hellenistic Kingship written by Calvin Wells McEwan and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This essay attempts to suggest the prehistoric evolution of kingship as an institution, to describe divine kingship as found in the ancient Near East in its various shades and degrees, its ramifications and diffusions, and finally to demonstrate that the recurrence of this institution in the sophisticated culture of the Hellenistic world was a conscious adoption from the East of a convenient political form"--
Book Synopsis The Political Philosophy of Hellenistic Kingship by : Erwin Ramsdell Goodenough
Download or read book The Political Philosophy of Hellenistic Kingship written by Erwin Ramsdell Goodenough and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A History of Pergamum by : Richard Evans
Download or read book A History of Pergamum written by Richard Evans and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-05-10 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kingdom of Pergamum emerged from the great period of instability which followed the death of Alexander the Great. Over the next century Pergamum was to become one of the wealthiest states in the eastern Mediterranean. The state of Pergamum was incorporated into the Roman Empire between 133/129 BCE and it eventually became Rome's wealthiest province. The whole of Asia Minor suffered in the civil wars which ended the Roman Republic, and Pergamum did not escape the exactions demanded of the Greek cities by Pompey, Caesar and Antony. In the subsequent peace, ushered in by Augustus, Pergamum regained its prosperity and became one of the cultural centres of the Roman Empire. Its ruling dynasty - the Attalids - were patrons of the arts and while in power were responsible for the remarkable embellishment of their capital at Pergamum. Other more ancient cities such as Ephesus and Miletus also benefited from their government. This volume surveys Pergamum's history from the late Third Century BCE to the Second Century CE.
Book Synopsis Jewish Perspectives on Hellenistic Rulers by : Tessa Rajak
Download or read book Jewish Perspectives on Hellenistic Rulers written by Tessa Rajak and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The lively, serious, and informed discussions in this book provide impressive examples of the insights achieved when the Jewish evidence of the late Second Temple period is shown both to illuminate and to reflect the wider history of the Hellenistic world."—Martin Goodman, author of Rome and Jerusalem: The Clash of Ancient Civilizations "What sets this book apart is that it bears the fruits of a truly interdisciplinary investigation into the topic. The result sheds light not just on Hellenistic kings and how they were viewed by their Jewish subjects, but also on the early Greek Bible and, more generally, the meeting of, and cross-fertilization between, Jewish and Graeco-Roman culture that occurred in the centuries following Alexander's conquest."—Guido Schepens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven "This wonderful collection of essays illuminates many facets of kingship in the Hellenistic world. The essays range over Hellenistic philosophy, Jewish fiction, the nuances of translation in the Greek Bible and archaeological evidence. Richly informative, and enjoyable reading besides!"—John J. Collins, author of Jewish Cult and Hellenistic Culture "This wide-ranging collection of essays brings together the too often separate perspectives of classical scholarship and Jewish studies. Jewish Perspectives on Hellenistic Rulers will be an indispensable reference work for anyone working on virtually any aspect of Hellenistic Jewish studies."—Sara Raup Johnson, author of Historical Fictions and Hellenistic Jewish Identity: Third Maccabees in its Cultural Context "This thought-provoking book presents a series of superb studies on Jewish-Greek views of hellenistic monarchy that together are suggestive of the rich interplay between Hellenistic Jewish intellectual traditions and their deep connections to the greater world of the Hellenistic monarchies. The volume will surely stimulate much more work on the subject, and will be required reading for all those whose interests touch on the subject of Hellenistic Judaism and Hellenistic history and culture more broadly."—J.G. Manning, author of Land and Power in Hellenistic Egypt: The Structure of Land Tenure
Book Synopsis The Political Paul by : Bruno Blumenfeld
Download or read book The Political Paul written by Bruno Blumenfeld and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2003-11-01 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Political Paul presents Paul as a political thinker. Many studies claiming Paul for Greek Hellenism discuss the influence upon him of various aspects of Hellenistic culture, but strangely neglect Hellenistic political philosophy with its roots in Classical antiquity. The Political Paul explores this dimension of PaulÆs thought within the general context of Hellenistic political reflection to focus on the intriguing body of literature known as the Pythagorean pseudepigrapha. These researches support the highly original argument that Christianity has foundations in Hellenistic kingship theories. Paul constructs a political theory for Christianity. He conceives it as a polis-basileia system, politics proper and divine rule, each with its own dikaiosyne; this the study re-evaluates as a political concept.
Book Synopsis The Political Paul by : Bruno Blumenfeld
Download or read book The Political Paul written by Bruno Blumenfeld and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Political Paul presents Paul as a political thinker. Many studies claiming Paul for Greek Hellenism discuss the influence upon him of various aspects of Hellenistic culture, but strangely neglect Hellenistic political philosophy with its roots in Classical antiquity. The Political Paul explores this dimension of Paul+ås thought within the general context of Hellenistic political reflection to focus on the intriguing body of literature known as the Pythagorean pseudepigrapha. These researches support the highly original argument that Christianity has foundations in Hellenistic kingship theo.
Book Synopsis The Hellenistic Court by : Andrew Erskine
Download or read book The Hellenistic Court written by Andrew Erskine and published by Classical Press of Wales. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hellenistic courts were centres of monarchic power, social prestige and high culture in the kingdoms that emerged after the death of Alexander. They were places of refinement, learning and luxury, and also of corruption, rivalry and murder. Surrounded by courtiers of varying loyalty, Hellenistic royal families played roles in a theatre of spectacle and ceremony. Architecture, art, ritual and scholarship were deployed to defend the existence of their dynasties. The present volume, from a team of international experts, examines royal methods and ideologies. It treats the courts of the Ptolemies, Seleucids, Attalids, Antigonids and of lesser dynasties. It also explores the influence, on Greek-speaking courts, of non- Greek culture, of Achaemenid and other Near Eastern royal institutions. It studies the careers of courtesans, concubines and 'friends' of royalty, and the intellectual, ceremonial, and artistic world of the Greek monarchies. The work demonstrates the complexity and motivations of Hellenistic royal civilisation, of courts which governed the transmission of Greek culture to the wider Mediterranean world - and to later ages.
Book Synopsis The Hellenistic Age by : Peter Thonemann
Download or read book The Hellenistic Age written by Peter Thonemann and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three centuries following the conquests of Alexander were perhaps the most thrilling of all periods of ancient history. Culture, ideas, and individuals travelled freely over vast areas from the Rhone to the Indus, whilst dynasts battled for dominion over Alexander's great empire. Thonemann presents a brief history of this globalized world.
Book Synopsis The Development and Display of Hellenistic Kingship in Bithynia and Pontus 323-63 BCE by : Daniel Shaun Hunter
Download or read book The Development and Display of Hellenistic Kingship in Bithynia and Pontus 323-63 BCE written by Daniel Shaun Hunter and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study aims to discover both the process of how the kingdoms of Bithynia and Pontus became Hellenistic monarchies during the 3rd-1st centuries BCE as well as how they actively displayed their Hellenism through their royal propaganda. The first two chapters of this thesis focus on the kingdoms of Bithynia and Pontus through the 3rd-2nd centuries BCE while the third and final chapter focuses exclusively on the reign of Mithridates VI. The methodology used in this study has been to examine both the literary and material evidence from both kingdoms with an emphasis on the material due primarily to a noticeable lack of the literary. This study has found that while the two kingdoms gradually became more ‘hellenised’ over the course of their respective historical development, they did so at comparatively different speeds and through different methods. The Bithynians developed as a Hellenistic monarchy at a gradual pace from the ascension of their second monarch onwards. They employed the familiar mechanisms of Hellenistic kingship seen in their contemporaries, namely the Seleucids, such as city construction, patronage of Pan-Hellenic sanctuaries and use of coinage from an early date. The Pontic kings however remained largely isolationist and were content to remain true to their Persian/Anatolian identity for their early years. It was only really with Pharnaces I’s capture of Sinope, and the subsequent use of the city as a royal capital, that Pontus began to ‘hellenise’ at any significant pace. While they also patronized Pan-Hellenic sanctuaries and employed coinage just as the Bithynians, they did not establish any significant cities in their lands and their coinage employed a unique set of portraits unseen in the Hellenistic world. Mithridates VI would serve as the culmination of Hellenistic kingship in Pontus. His reign saw the further cultivation of Hellenic culture orientated around the monarch while continuing his dynasty’s’ tradition of not establishing cities in his name. This study concludes that both Bithynia and Pontus should be seen as Hellenistic kingdoms in their own right based on the existing evidence in the context of the more prominent Hellenistic kingdoms of the eastern Mediterranean region.
Book Synopsis Hellenistic History and Culture by : Peter Green
Download or read book Hellenistic History and Culture written by Peter Green and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a 1988 conference, American and British scholars unexpectedly discovered that their ideas were converging in ways that formed a new picture of the variegated Hellenistic mosaic. That picture emerges in these essays and eloquently displays the breadth of modern interest in the Hellenistic Age. A distrust of all ideologies has altered old views of ancient political structures, and feminism has also changed earlier assessments. The current emphasis on multiculturalism has consciously deemphasized the Western, Greco-Roman tradition, and Nubians, Bactrians, and other subject peoples of the time are receiving attention in their own right, not just as recipients of Greco-Roman culture. History, like Herakleitos' river, never stands still. These essays share a collective sense of discovery and a sparking of new ideas—they are a welcome beginning to the reexploration of a fascinatingly complex age.
Book Synopsis The Oriental Origin of Hellenistic Kingship by : Calvin W. McEwan
Download or read book The Oriental Origin of Hellenistic Kingship written by Calvin W. McEwan and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Images and Ideologies by : A. W. Bulloch
Download or read book Images and Ideologies written by A. W. Bulloch and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume captures the individuality, the national and personal identity, the cultural exchange, and the self-consciousness that have long been sensed as peculiarly potent in the Hellenistic world. The fields of history, literature, art, philosophy, and religion are each presented using the format of two essays followed by a response. Conveying the direction and focus of Hellenistic learning, eighteen leading scholars discuss issues of liberty versus domination, appropriation versus accommodation, the increasing diversity of citizen roles and the dress and gesture appropriate to them, and the accompanying religious and philosophical ferment. The result is an arresting view of the incredible and unprecedented diversity of the Hellenistic world.
Book Synopsis Courts and Elites in the Hellenistic Empires by : Strootman Rolf Strootman
Download or read book Courts and Elites in the Hellenistic Empires written by Strootman Rolf Strootman and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-13 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rolf Strootman brings together various aspects of court culture in the Macedonian empires of the post-Achaemenid Near East. During the Hellenistic Period (c. 330-30 BCE), Alexander the Great and his successors reshaped their Persian and Greco-Macedonian legacies to create a new kind of rulership that was neither 'western' nor 'eastern' and would profoundly influence the later development of court culture and monarchy in both the Roman West and Iranian East.Drawing on the socio-political models of Norbert Elias and Charles Tilly, After the Achaemenids shows how the Hellenistic dynastic courts were instrumental in the integration of local elites in the empires, and the (re)distribution of power, wealth, and status. It analyses the competition among courtiers for royal favour and the, not always successful, attempts of the Hellenistic rulers to use these struggles to their own advantage.It demonstrates the interrelationships of the three competing 'Hellenistic' empires of the Seleukids, Antigonids and Ptolemies, casts new light on the phenomenon of Hellenistic Kingship by approaching it from the angle of the court and covers topics such as palace architecture, royal women, court ceremonial, and coronation ritual.
